February 2004 - Posts
I recently watch a science program from Nova and it's really fascinating. It's about a theory for everything. I strongly recommend this program... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/
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I really wonder if electronics component are made to fail right after basic 12 months warranty. This time is my MP3 player from iRock. 12 months + 2 days.
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A control itself is just a behavior and separate from visual presentation. A control normally comes with a default visual style (normally styles from the current desktop theme) and it can be override by the user of the control. They can override with
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Follow up my last posting with a link to Avalon animation in code.
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Animation is a based on change of certain value in the object over a duration. The value change can be the following type - DoubleAnimation, PointAnimatiom, ColorAnimation, LengthAnimation, FloatAnimation, SizeAnimation etc.. It's all based on type. So
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A utility from Microsoft Research to merge multiple assemblies into one. For more info - http://research.microsoft.com/%7Embarnett/ilmerge.aspx
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Just last month I sold of my old CS books for more than what I purchase for. I bought all 3 in 1994 for about ~$25 each. I sold them for ~$37 each. I gained ~50% and make extra room in my bookshelf. How weird? I thought only house appreciate in value.
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I read Anonymous Methods support in Whidbey (CLR) last week and decided to play with it. This looks a lot like how Javascript (in IE) handles event - < body onload ="msgbox('hello')" ..> In general Anonymous Methods allows code block in place of
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From Visual Studio Magazine .
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I bought a Windows Media Center from HP 2 months back and I'm enjoying a whole new level of media experiences. The tv guide, my tv, video and pix are all good. The online experience that comes with Windows Media Center 2004 is even better .. Napster,
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Just today I discovered a feature of XAML - ability to use custom CLR object as property to my Avalon control. All you need in the XAML is to map your assembly into a namespace in XAML. This is kinda like XML serialization in CLR. Here's an example of
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If you have Yukon PDC beta bits and you are utilizing XQuery for your next project, you got to try this out. Maybe this is old news but it's sure beneficial to me. 1. Create a new database with SQL Server Workbench. 2. Create a table that allows Xml Document
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